As previously reported, both CNN and CBS fell for inaccurate reports alleging a WikiLeaks email was sent to Donald Trump Jr. with an encryption key to access future leaks.

And Donald Trump Jr. responded…

WikiLeaks had actually tweeted a link to the information days before the email reached Trump Jr. inbox. The fake news media claimed this was stone cold proof of collusion, as WikiLeaks has long been smeared as a Kremlin puppet. Disaster!

“So CNN misreported the date of the Wikileaks email that @DonaldJTrumpJr received, meaning that the entire point of the story — that the campaign might have gotten advance warning of the leaks — is wrong. Wow,” tweeted Washington Examiner reporter Sarah Westwood.

“I know you can’t help but spread #fakenews@cnn, but now that you know the truth you should have the decency to retract the false story, make the correction, take down the bs tweet, and apologize to the 2 or 3 people that still believe you to be credible #yourewelcome”

I know you can’t help but spread #fakenews@cnn, but now that you know the truth you should have the decency to retract the false story, make the correction, take down the bs tweet, and apologize to the 2 or 3 people that still believe you to be credible #yourewelcomehttps://t.co/bjL6mSdaii

This is how the fake news cycle works today. CNN, CBS, MSNBC, Bloomberg, WaPo, New York Times et al publish a bogus stories which makes its way around the globe several times until they publish a retraction several hours or even a day later that very few people see.

CNN ended up issuing only a correction when they should have issued a complete retraction.

Read this correction.
It should be a complete retraction.
This was the basis of the entire story. https://t.co/CVxSi8qAKl